Physical Geography
Tallest mountain in Africa
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
This term describes the basic systems a country needs—such as roads, electricity, and clean water.
What is infrastructure?
This word measures how many people can read and write in a country.
What is literacy?
Thousands of years ago, this vast northern African desert was a tropical region with lakes, rivers, and grasslands before climate changes turned it into the world’s largest hot desert.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Africa’s largest island, located off the southeast coast, is home to unique wildlife like lemurs.
What is Madagascar?
This desert, stretching across northern Africa, is the largest hot desert in the world.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Countries with low income, rapid population growth, and limited technology are called this.
What are developing countries?
Countries with strong economies, high education levels, and advanced technology are known as this.
What are developed countries?
This ancient African civilization along the Nile River is famous for pyramids, pharaohs, and a writing system called hieroglyphics.
What is Ancient Egypt?
This river, the second longest in Africa, flows through Congo and is vital for transportation and hydroelectric power.
What is the Congo River?
This vast grassland region covers half of Africa and is home to animals like lions, elephants, and zebras
What is the savannah?
This term describes how people are spread out across a region or continent.
What is population distribution?
This shows how many people live in a certain area per square mile or square kilometer.
What is population density?
This 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire is considered the richest person in history, famous for his pilgrimage to Mecca and immense wealth in gold.
Who is Mansa Musa?
his famous mountain range runs along the northwest coast of Africa through countries like Morocco and Algeria.
What are the Atlas Mountains?
Most high-population areas in Africa are located near these geographic features
What are Rivers? (ex. Nile)
A person who leaves their home country to live in another is called this.
What is an emigrant?
This term describes the economic advantage countries get when they have lots of young workers and fewer dependents.
What is the demographic dividend?
This country in southern Africa was colonized by the British and the Dutch, later sparking apartheid policies.
What is South Africa?
This African country is the largest by land area, covering more than 2.3 million square kilometers.
What is Algeria?
This large rainforest in Central Africa is the second-largest tropical rainforest in the world
What is the Congo Rainforest?
This career field is the most commonly affected by brain drain in Africa, as many trained professionals leave the continent for better opportunities abroad.
What is healthcare?
This West African country is the most populous in Africa, with over 230 million people.
What is Nigeria?
One major reason European colonial powers entered Africa was to control and profit from this.
What are natural resources?
Africa’s largest lake, shared by Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania, is named after a queen
What is Lake Victoria